Exchange of voice and video between two cellular or wireless telephones

• US 20070182811A1
• Filed: 09/15/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Alfred G. Rockefeller, A. Zeki Erdin
• Original Assignee: Alfred G. Rockefeller, A. Zeki Erdin
• Inventors: Erdin, A. Zeki, Rockefeller, Alfred G.
• Granted Patent: US 7,979,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/14.20
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/576 associated with a pictorial or graphical representation
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/06 including a wireless LAN interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2007/145 Handheld terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN

Abstract

This invention satisfies a need for exchanging video between two wireless terminals over a new 4G network. It would be impractical to design the service to operate over existing 2G and 3G networks. These older networks exhibit lack of throughput needed for extensive videophone service since they were originally designed for voice service.

This invention will employ the new 4G network to allow a terminal to select the proper bandwidth needed to send either voice only or video and voice over the same wireless connection.

Use of class of service characters combined with the receiving terminal address sent by the originating terminal will allow the wireless carrier to process the call as a video to video call by accessing a “caller ID” table distinct from the normal voice “caller ID” table. The new originating “caller ID” will be selected from this table and forwarded to the receiving terminal causing it to enter video mode automatically and to use a distinctive ring tone.

Claims

1. This invention defines a new video exchange service for cellular or wireless terminals to be carried on a new 4G wireless network

1.a Referring to claim 1, the service will use transmission facilities also used by both cellular voice and broadband services as defined in IEEE 802.16, 802.20 and 802.22 specifications.

2. This invention specifies the means of automatically configuring the originating and receiving terminals as well as the network to employ video and other operational modes.

2.a Referring to claim 2, each video enabled terminal will employ a subscriber table and routing table to set network parameters and automatically to configure both sending and receiving terminals for video mode.

3. The forwarding of a class of service in the “

caller ID”

package will cause the receiving terminal to select a ring tone unique to videophone service.

4. The called subscriber may answer the call in one of two modes:

a video exchange mode or a mode in which a “

canned”

video flame is sent.